Two journal papers on St. Louis CORE and ACTION
St. Louis CORE, ACTION
These are two journal articles on St. Louis CORE and an offshoot group of the chapter, ACTION (Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes). The articles, "Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis" and "Between Civil Rights and Black Power In The Gateway City: The Action Committee To Improve Opportunities For Negroes (ACTION), 1964-75" were written by the historian Clarence Lang.
Clarence Lang
Neighborhood Rebel; Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Spring 2004
Palgrave Macmillan; Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Spring 2004,
2010; 2004
Clarence Lang
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English
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St. Louis CORE, 1960's and 1970's
FBI documents on St. Louis CORE and ACTION
FBI documents on CORE
This collection of FBI documents simply notes that ACTION (Action Committee to Increase Opportunities for Negroes), a militant civil rights group in St. Louis, was a splinter group from the local CORE chapter that broke away several years earlier. They come from the Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984 database and are part of the COINTELPRO papers.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
1968
public domain
St. Louis, Missouri